Comparative architecture of silks, fibrous proteins and their encoding genes in insects and spiders

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 493-507

  Craig, Catherine L ^a,b,c   Riekel, Christian ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

A. pernyi; B. mori; Evolvability; Fibrous protein; Gene; Genetic architecture; N. clavipes; Silk

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CRYSTALLIN; GLUE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PROTEIN BR 1; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN FHC; PROTEIN FLAG; PROTEIN MA 1; PROTEIN MA 2; PROTEIN SER1; SERICIN; SILK FIBROIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLOPEPTIDE; FIBROIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BALBIANI RING; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; ERROR; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME SIZE; INSECT; INTRON; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; SILK; SILKWORM; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIDER; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; REVIEW;

ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FIBROINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS); SERICINS; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 0036897954     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(02)00095-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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